I have been testing both Iview and Aperture for a while and looking at the structure. I think I have decided on Aperture. It seems to work for me. One thing I wanted to know from other Aperture users is how do you work on two different machines. In IVIEW you just copy the catalog and work off line. When your done you just copy back the catalog and all the sorting you performed syncs back up. I travel with my mac book pro and traveling often allows me the best time to keep adding metadata to my library. My only thought at this time is to use and external hard drive but the performance goes down the drain. Any suggestions.

There's no syncing function, but you can get by with exporting/importing Projects from one machine to another and deleting the old copies of the Projects. Just make sure you are using referenced Masters or the Project files sizes will be absurd.

There's no syncing function, but you can get by with exporting/importing Projects from one machine to another and deleting the old copies of the Projects. Just make sure you are using referenced Masters or the Project files sizes will be absurd

This approach is a lot more feasible with Aperture 2.0 - they added the ability to force the reconnection of referenced masters. When you move projects between machines like this, you'll need to reconnect the masters to their new location on disk. The gotcha with the 1.5.X release of Aperture was that it wouldn't always reconnect - it often found "differences" between the masters when none existed.

In 2.0, you can hold down the option key and force the reconnection to the files that you know are the same.